True crime stories & great mysteries
Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.
True crime stories
Hwaseong serial killer
The first case of serial killings in the history of South Korea that triggered the huge investigation in the area of Hwaseong City - over 20,000 suspects were taken under consideration.
Hinterkaifeck Murders
A small farm outside the Ingolstadt in Germany, was the place of mysterious murder. Six months earlier the maid left her position stating that the house was haunted, later the residents...
The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine or Lost Dutchman’s Mine is a legendary rich gold mine hidden somewhere in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. Although the exact location is not even roughly known...
Great mysteries
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
Easter Island
Rapa Nui, the Easter Island, still hides many mysteries - from the origins of its inhabitants to rongorongo script and famous moai statues.
The Somerton Man
In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.
Isdal Woman
On 29 November 1970, a man and his two daughters were hiking near Bergen in south-west Norway. The area was known as Isdalen (Ice Valley) or sometimes as Death Valley, due to the history...
Controversial theories
Moon landing conspiracy
After Apollo 11 was shown landing on the Moon on July 20th 1969 as the first manned mission, instantly the conspiracy theories popped up that it was just a staged show for the public and Russians.
UFO sightings
When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...
Smolensk air crash
During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...
9/11 attacks
Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...
Unexplained phenomena
Ghost stories
Ghost stories are part of human culture - even in the Dark Ages, our predecessors believed that we’re not actually dying when our body dies. The spirit, the soul or some other form...
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
High Rock event
In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...
Crime and mystery movies
The Town That Dreaded Sundown 1976
Based on a true story of Texarkana killings - a masked murderer attacks young couples.
Clue 1985
Guests on a dinner party have to find which one of them is the killer. Based on a board game "Clue".
Fear of Water 2011
Small town policeman gets his first ever murder case - the 18-year-old daughter of the mayor has been raped and killed.
Red Lights 2012
World-famous psychic Simon Silver plans his great comeback, university academic Margaret Matheson who debunks everything paranormal wants to bring him down as a fraud.